Analysis of Student Confidence Levels and Application Success Rates in Simulator Based Dental Anesthesia Education

NCT04654819 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: AnkaraU 14/16
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 100
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The present study investigates confidence levels reported among intern dentists who used dental anesthesia simulators, before performing local anesthesia on patients as well as patient reports on intern dentist confidence levels to deliver anesthesia injections and compare them to those who did not receive dental anesthesia simulator education. Application success rates will also be investigated and compared. The study was carried out in the dental anesthesia simulator laboratory and in the faculty clinics of Ankara University, Faculty of Dentistry. A hundred volunteer intern dentists who completed the third year of the 5-year undergraduate education program and who had not performed local anesthesia on a patient contributed. Seventy intern dentists received training on dental anesthesia simulators, and made applications on patients, while 30 intern dentists made applications without training on the dental anesthesia simulators and served as control. With a prepared single questionnaire, intern dentists made self-assessment of preparedness and confidence, educators made assessment of application success rates and treated patients evaluated intern dentists' confidence levels.

Conditions

Confidence, Self

Keywords

Dental anesthesia; Dental education; Simulators; Technology

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Self-reported preparedeness and confidence levels of intern dentists

  Intern preparedeness and confidence levels was assesed with a questionnaire answered by the intern dentists. Questions will be answered on a 5 point scale: Strongly agree, Agree, Indecisive, Disagree, Strongly disagree.

  2 years

• Patients perception of intern dentist confidence levels

  Patients perception of intern dentist confidence was assesed with a prepared questionnaire answered by the patients. Questions will be answered on a 5 point scale: Strongly agree, Agree, Indecisive, Disagree, Strongly disagree.

  2 years

Study Arms (2)

Control group

NO INTERVENTION

This group made anesthesia application on patients without training on simulators.

Study group

EXPERIMENTAL

This group made anesthesia application on patients after training on simulators.

Device: Dental anesthesia simulator usage

Interventions

Dental anesthesia simulator usage DEVICE

Training on dental anesthesia simulator

Study group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 25 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Intern dentists who had completed the third year of the 5-year undergraduate education program
• Not applied local anesthesia to a patient
• Consent to participate

You may not qualify if:

• Applied local anesthesia to a patient
• Not consenting to participate

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ankara University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Ankara University Faculty of Dentistry

Ankara, 06940, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Study Officials

• Cahit Üçok, Prof. Dr.

  Ankara University

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Masking Details: The control group did not have access to simulators during the period of the study.
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Prof. Dr.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 26, 2020
• First Posted: December 4, 2020
• Study Start: September 1, 2018
• Primary Completion: July 1, 2020
• Study Completion: July 1, 2020
• Last Updated: December 4, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-12

Locations

TU (1)